When Betsy learns that a new family is coming to the Nebraska prairie, she hopes they have a girl who will be her friend.

One sunny Saturday in 1889, Lizzie helps her grandmother scrub, boil, rinse, and hang loads of laundry, although she would rather be having a tea party with her best friend, Lucy, and their dolls, Amelia Cordelia and Belinda Lavinia.

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

A young pioneer girl and her family celebrate Christmas in their cabin in the Wisconsin woods.

Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.

A little pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

"As Josephine Jenkins sets off on the Oregon Trail with her mother and younger brothers to reunite with her father out West, she realizes that her beloved diary has gone missing. Meanwhile, her fellow traveler Stephen Byrd is sad to be leaving his friends behind as his family makes the move to Oregon. Follow Josephine and Stephen along the trail as they camp in the wilderness, look out over incredible landscapes, and prepare for their new lives in...

Reading level: RL 2.4 ; Ages: 6-9 When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado

Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.

John Chapman is better known as Johnny Appleseed, but who was he, really? Did he really wear a pan on his head as a hat and travel the United States planting apple seeds? This unique biography explores the legend and the real man. The comic book-style illustrations help young people get a true flavor for what life might have been like for this memorable legendary figure.